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Genesis 11

  • And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.…
  • And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.…
  • And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. …
  • And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.…
  • And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. …
  • And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. …
  • Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. …
  • So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.…
  • Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.…
  • These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:…
  • and Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.…
  • And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:…
  • and Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.…
  • And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber: …
  • and Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.…
  • And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg: …
  • and Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. …
  • And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu: …
  • and Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred and nine years, and begat sons and daughters. …
  • And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug: …
  • and Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.  …
  • And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:…
  • and Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. …
  • And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah:…
  • and Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters. …
  • And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.…
  • Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.…
  • And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.…
  • And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah. …
  • But Sarai was barren; she had no child.…
  • And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there. …
  • And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.…